EAGER: Sensors in a Shoebox: Engaging Detroiters in Analyzing and Meeting Community Needs

鞋盒中的传感器项目的重点是赋予城市公民必要的工具和方法，以观察和分析影响其社区的物理，社会和自然系统，以改善基于社区的决策。该项目创建了一个负担得起的和坚固的传感器套件，其中包括太阳能供电的无线传感器与互联网连接，可以分发到社区，以感测环境参数，振动，运动等参数。 数据从社区部署的传感器套件传输到存储和管理传感器数据的云端。 社区直接从门户网站获取数据，门户网站提供了一套用户友好的分析工具，公民可以使用这些工具从原始传感器数据中提取与社区相关的信息。 一些设想的社区使用的传感器在一个鞋盒平台包括但不限于：测量邻里空气质量，跟踪公共空间的使用情况，并观察居民的移动选择（步行，骑自行车和机动交通）。 该项目将为扩展网络物理系统以明确包括人类提供科学和技术基础。所谓的网络-物理-社会系统，这些人在回路中的系统有可能改变各种商业应用，包括交通、建筑能源管理等。 该项目吸引了底特律的社区，这座城市在经历了数十年的人口急剧下降后开始转型。 具体来说，该项目从底特律公立特许学校招募初中和高中学生，在系统设计和部署的第一线服务。 在此过程中，该小组将密切研究和严格评估城市青年使用该系统的经验。 特别是，将从质量和数量上评估STEM知识的进步和青年作为连接公民的概念。

The Sensors in a Shoebox project focuses on empowering urban citizens with the tools and methods necessary to observe and analyze the physical, social, and natural systems that affect their communities for improved community-based decision making. The project creates an affordable and ruggedized sensor kit that consists of solar-powered wireless sensors with Internet connectivity that can be distributed to communities to sense environmental parameters, vibrations, motion, among other parameters. Data is transmitted from community-deployed sensor kits to the cloud where sensor data is stored and managed. The community directly accesses their data from a web portal offering a suite of user-friendly analytical tools that citizens could use to extract community-relevant information from raw sensor data. Some envisioned community uses of the Sensors in a Shoebox platform include but not limited to: measuring neighborhood air quality, tracking the usage of public spaces, and observing residents' mobility choices (walking, biking, and motorized transport). This project will provide a scientific and technological foundation to the extension of cyber-physical systems to explicitly include humans. So called cyber-physical-social systems, these human-in-the-loop systems have the potential to transform a variety of commercial application including those in transportation, building energy management, among others. The project engages the communities of Detroit, a city beginning to go through transformation after decades of dramatic population declines. Specifically, the project recruits middle- and high school students from Detroit public charter schools to serve at the front lines of the system design and deployment. In doing so, the team will closely study and rigorously assess the experiences of urban youth using the system. In particular, advancement of STEM knowledge and youth's notions of being connected citizens will be qualitatively and quantitatively assessed.